Site Updates – Andre's Blog & More

UPDATE: AWS Outage: andreg.org & Minecraft Server Aren’t Affected

UPDATE: The outage has been resolved by late afternoon on October 20th.

There appears to be an outage relating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is affecting large parts of the web. This website (andreg.org) and the Minecraft server appears to be not affected by the outage.

Click here to monitor the AWS outage

For any further updates relating to the Minecraft server, visit andreg.org/minecraft/status

UPDATE: Services are Restored – Mojang’s Services are Currently Down (Minecraft)

UPDATE: Mojang’s services are back up and functional, as of 10:10 AM PST

The issue has been resolved, you may log into Notch’s World Minecraft server now.

Thanks to Mojang!

Thank you for being an active member.

We are aware of an outage when logging into Minecraft. As of writing there is no known cause or how long the outage will last.

Logging into the Minecraft server is affected.

We will keep you all posted.

This is a developing story.

May 2025 Updates: New Photos Added to the Gallery, Site Enhancements, New Tutorials Added, Check It Out!

Hello visitors! I’ve made a number of updates to the website!

I added more than a handful of new images to the gallery. I’ve taken some images two years ago at Red Rock Canyon and I am pleased to show some of them to you.

There’s some other new photos added, including some food photography, in addition, to landscape photography!

I’ve added an easy to link to get to the gallery from anywhere on the site, there’s an entry to access it! It’s Photography

→ Check out the updated photo gallery

In addition, I have added a new tutorial, earlier this week, a remake of an oldie about Windows Remote Assistance, the predecessor to Quick Assist. Fully rewritten tutorial for the new remote control assistant that’s built-in to modern versions of Windows.

I have a new article/opinion piece in the works, it should be done within a week or so, it’s about the impending doom of Windows 10 and how Microsoft messed up their product end of life and how Windows 11 still hasn’t caught up to its predecessor after nearly four years being in the market and being a free upgrade.

I’ll go into how Microsoft fumbled this and how it is different from the fiasco that occurred when Windows 10 was released!

Be sure to check out the updated andreg.org!